Milos Poliak

Prof. Miloš Poliak acts as dean and professor at the Faculty of Operation and Economics, Transport and Communications at Žilina university in Žilina, Slovakia and at the same time he is a visiting professor at Politechnike Święntokrzyskej v Kielcoch. He is dealing with topic of economics in road transport and transport law in road transport. In the area of transport services he has created his own scientific school, he has prepared 8 PhD graduates within PhD study. At present, prof. Poliak is supervisor and co-supervisor in all degrees of education. He is also the author of 3 monographs, 8 university textbook, 27 scripts and teaching texts. His scientifc papers are published in 12 journals indexed in WOS or SCOPUS databases, in the following 47 scientific journals and in more than 300 professional journals. So far, his publications are published in more than 50 scientific conferences and has more than 170 quotations. Prof. Poliak also participated in solving the state order tasks and foreign grants, too.

Keynote title: Sustainability of driver remuneration in the context of labour mobility

The contribution deals with problem of labour mobility in the field of road transport and driver’s remuneration. There is valid a free movement of goods and labour in European Union. There is employed a lot of drivers in companies in other countries of European Union in the field of road transport. Through implementation of national specifications, mainly mini-mal wage, the member states are limiting the common free market. In the first part the contribution identifies problems of common market depending to drivers’ remuneration. An undesirable result of national specifications is mailbox transport companies uprising. In order to reduce costs, such com-panies pay not only taxes but also driver insurance. The next part of the pa-per deals with the own research of driver remuneration carried out on 128,000 transport companies registered in three EU member states promot-ing national minimum wages and in three EU member states that are against national minimum wages. An aim of this contribution is to prove that the sus-tainability of free market in European Union is possible only if no national protection measures for own transporters are accepted.